World Humanitarian Day: National staff bear brunt of record violence against humanitarian workers

Country: World Source: Save the Children ONDON/GENEVA, 17 August 2026 – Nearly all attacks on humanitarian workers over the past five years –96% – were on national staff as parties to conflict flouted laws designed to protect aid workers and violence reached unprecedented levels, Save the Children said ahead of World Humanitarian Day. New analysis by Save the Children of data from the Aid Worker Security Database (AWSD), found that between 1 August 2021 and the end of July 2026, about 3,496 national aid workers wer